Dear Readers,

    It has been awhile since we last saw each other. I have been hard at work up here where its bitter cold. Not much new to report though. I had a good holiday season here. Despite it being the first one where I was away from home. Life here is not too bad these days. I put in an honest days work and leave the rest up to other folks. I made friends with a guy who came here about 2 months ago. Let me tell you what, I never thought I would meet someone else who so closely mirrors me. But then again, I am glad he came. I now have someone else to talk to when I get bored out of my mind, and whats more, he is a fellow Christian and so life is good. My ability to work well under stress has definately improved greatly. If any of you ever want to learn fast how to deal with stress join the military. Other than that, not much else has come along. Life is as it should be right now. I am off doing what God called me to do, and I am doing my best to make things happen. Oh and one more thing, my brother in law Bryan is shipping out to Marine Corps boot camp today. Funny when you think about it, because he got me to sign up for the Air Force awhile ago. Oh well. Until we meet again, keep it real and keep rockin.

Your friend,

Andrew

Dear Readers,

      Its me again. Coming directly from the land of the midnight sun. My current situation is as follows. My social existence is its usual awkard and insignificant self. I spent last night avoiding people who were driven to get me drunk. I did have some fun though when my friend Carter taught me how to dance, and he performed some kareoke with me. I also now have some dirt on some of my co-workers who can't remember any of what happened last night. I can recall every detail. I could use this very well sometime in the future. In any case, that is as it stands at this moment. Nothing else is really new these days. I just have a few little tests and things coming up here and there.

      I am still trying to figure out what the heck I am doing here. Not just Thule, but in the Air Force in general. I hope I find out the ultimate purpose of my being here soon. I am getting edgy with all of this stuff. Ever since I graduated high school and got out of Pennsylvania, I have been finding myself riding one more road of life by the seat of my pants. And I can already feel the butt on these drawers wearing out. Oh well, I guess that is one of the underlying purposes of everyone who ever lived and breathed. To be surprised at what waited for them around the bend in life. I just wish I had a mirror to place at the corner once in awhile.

       My love life is still non-exsistent. I am still praying about it though. I just wish I could get a glimpse of what is waiting for me in that department. If I have met the girl already, it would be nice to have a defining sign jump out at me. It would be very cool to have it come in a dream. Get an old-school prophecy thing going on. There is still a girl back home that kind of caught my eye, but dang it, I still don't know for sure what her thoughts are about me. When I try to call her, I can't think of a dang thing to talk about. Then I find myself a million miles from a phone when there is something on my mind. And I can't even find myself a pen and paper to write things down. I don't know if this is just a trial to test my patience, or if I should take it as a sign that she is meant to be with someone else later on in life. In any case this is one of the reasons that my love life is non-exsistent.

      Well I will catch you all on the flip side and not a day sooner. Unless of course things progress is a way that I can't see. Then again, I'm just a stupid human. And change could happen fast without me even getting a chance to catch my breath.

Dear Readers,

    Hello out there. Thank you all who have bothered to read my rantings. You ever stop to think and suddenly realize that you have set your priorties all out of whack? I had that reality check last night. I came to realize after reading about half of a book entitled "Boy Meets Girl" that I was just about every last one of those helpless men and women rolled into one. They all had goals and ideas. But they let the goals they set for themselves be everything from gods to a reason for breathing. I'm finding more and more that the clear minded man I thought I was is still far from being so. And not just in dating; I've allowed myself to become far too anxious on so many things in life. I'm not sure yet if I have been trying to supplement my separation from family and friends by setting so many goals or what. But the fact is that there are so many things I still need to do, so many things I have to answer for before I can invite someone else into this complicated thing I call a life.

     I don't really care what you label me out there anymore. You can call me a man or a stupid child. I allowed myself to care too much about things that can't bring me what I need out of life. I don't know myself as well as I should; me the guy who has been living in this skin for 21 years... I would venture so far as to call myself pathetic for not getting a grip sooner in life. Why is it that some people can go through their lives, long or short, and think for so long that they have it all together, and suddenly realize that they don't have a dang thing in order? Its been too long since I last gave myself a thorough evaluation. And since then, I have noted that my motivations, my dreams and desires, all that which could have been better reached were being grabbed desparately by hands covered in grease. My goals and desires aren't nessesarily bad ones, I just dropped into the habit of trying too hard to achieve them without allowing God to set the tempo and let me listen to its song.

      So at this time I would ask that all of you pray that I can have the patience I need to reach goals without letting the goal itself be my only reason for breathing. This ride called life is something that I should learn to enjoy, even when the shocks are bad and rest stops are few and far between. Also I would urge you all who are in my shoes to slow down and examine yourselves to see if the speed and direction you have in mind are what God has blessed for you.

Dear Readers,

    Hello out there my fellow bloggers and readers. It's been nearly 3 months since I arrived here at Thule AB Greenland. This whole experience has taught me a lot in such a small amount of time; not just about the world I live in, but also how I fit in and what I bring to the table. That in itself is a rather sobering experience. If I could put into words the kind of feelings and changes I have undergone since all this came about, it would be something to the effect that says the child of yesterday is gone and the adult has moved in never to leave again. I'm finding that all the old tricks I thought I could use to simplify life were just some lousy idea from an older but not wiser generation. (to set the record straight, I don't mean my own parents) I will look back on those days and and try to use them as a guide to the best of my ability. For all of you are currently living in similiar times of change, don't let the shedding of the old be a discouraging thing as you embrace the future of your lives.

Dear Readers,

    You ever meet that one person who thinks they know everything; even stuff about your family, that you don't? Or that thinks that the life they had gives them the right to tell other people that the way they think is flawed to the core, and can NEVER be wrong with what they say? Well, I have met someone who falls into both of these categories. He is a co-worker who is really working on my last nerve. Take for instance this lame notion he brought up this morning at work. He went to school with my brother-in-law... while that was the case, they both made many mutual friends. In the time since all that, my brother-in-law and I met, and I helped him change into a totally different person than my co-worker knew. I saw both sides of him, and besides the occasional ranting in anger, my brother-in-law is no longer that same person. Despite what I know to be true, my co-worker won't let go of the idea that he is wrong about him. At the heart of all this annoyance, my co-worker seems to think beyond the shadow of a doubt that my brother-in-law managed to get some from my sister before they got married.

      While I know he is wrong, or at least I know my own sister well enough to lean very hard toward her being innocent of these allegations, it still burns me up that some shmuck who only met my sister once or twice in passing, and hasn't seen and talked seriously with my brother-in-law can sit there and tell me "how it really is" in my own family. To top it off, this guy is working on my nerves with is constant rantings of the Bible being one big lie, and trying to hammer into my head the idea that God doesn't exsist. I stopped preaching my philosophy to him ages ago. I would appreciate it if he followed suit and laid off!

     ...Now that my ranting and venting is done, lets address some of the finer things that have happened recently... I have to give that some thought. I spent so much time and energy ranting that I can't remember anything positive at the moment. More to come in future issues. Catch you later people.